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Near here stood the landing site of the Upper Ferry, one of two ferries that provided the first established crossing of the Rock River into Grand Detour. Authorized by local ordinance in 1837, the ferries were the sole means of commercial access to the south and east until the first Rock River bridge was constructed in 1901.
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Grand Detour, Illinois · United States
